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Monday, April 29, 2019

Cameron Crowe calls Old Globe's world-premiere stage adaptation of 'Almost Famous' an ode to music — and San Diego

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Bring it on home, as Led Zeppelin sang in the band’s 1970s heyday — and now that’s just what Cameron Crowe is about to do with “Almost Famous.”

Crowe actually got to know Zeppelin in those times of yore, back when the San Diego-bred writer-director was a startlingly precocious rock journalist; there’s a great photo of a teen-age Crowe having a laugh with guitarist Jimmy Page out on tour somewhere.

That momentous chapter in Crowe’s young life eventually helped inspire “Almost Famous,” the 2000 movie for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

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